GREAT PHOTOJOURNALISM

Great Photojournalism

Carsten Snejbjerg

"DISPLACED PEOPLE IN GEORGIA"

DISPLACED PEOPLE IN GEORGIA

Displaced people in Georgia - The view. Niko Benize, 3 and his big brother Nukri, age 5, sit in the room they share with their family in Tskhaltubo, Georgia on Thursday, Dec. 6, 2007. An estimated 300,000 people were displaced as a result of GeorgiaÕs wars against two separatist military campaigns, one in the Black Sea region of Abkhazia in the northwest, and the other in the northeast region of South Ossetia. The war over Abkhazian, between 1992 and 1994, led to the displacement of mainly ethnic Georgians.

Displaced people in Georgia - Home
Approximately 8-10.000 people live in small rooms in old hotels and sanatoriums in Tskhaltubo, Georgia, Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2007. This former hotel was built in 1983. There are no running water and the families are sharing toilets.

Displaced people in Georgia - Together.
Shorena lives with her family in a small room. The family of five have to share two beds. The family live on social security.

Displaced people in Georgia - Umbrella. A woman holds an umbrella in the snow in Tskhaltubo, Georgia, Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2007.

There are no running water in the rooms. The families have to collect the water from a post outside

Refugees, Nino, 7, and Inga, 4, Abshilova, lie in the bed which they share with their grandmother in Tskhaltubo, Georgia on Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2007. The family has been living in this room for 15 years.

Displaced people in Georgia - Henhouses. A woman stands in front of some hen houses in Tskhaltubo, Georgia on Sunday, Dec. 2, 2007.

Displaced people in Georgia - Pig. A pig is slaughtered in Tskhaltubo, Georgia, Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2007.

Displaced people in Georgia - One meal per day. The Kopaliani family is so poor that they can only afford to eat one meal a day in Tskhaltubo, Georgia on Friday, Feb. 2, 2007.

A former hotel, is shown, that now houses RDP refugees from Abkhazia, since they were forced to flee from the war in 1992-93, in Tskhaltubo, Georgia, on Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2007. The outlook for the returning to Abkhazia, moving away from the old buildings, and finding work, is not good.

Shorena Shamatava, 33, sits in her room in Tskhaltubo, Georgia on Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2007. She is holding her child, Seorgi, age 2. The family is living in a small room. The family income is $38.00 US a month.

Tskhaltubo. dark winther evening

Displaced people in Georgia - Fighting. Nukri, 5, and Niko, 3, Benize, fight over a toy gun, in Tskhaltubo, Georgia on Thursday, Dec. 6, 2007. The family of five lives in a small room (approximately 15 square-meters), and must share the same bed.

A young women stands in her room

Natela Kacharava, who has paralysis in her leg and hands, sits in the family sleeping room

A young man stands at a playground

Niko Benize, age 3, sits in the room he shares with his entire family of five,

A pig has been slaughtered for a party

The eight members of the Kopaliani family live under one roof in Tskhaltubo, Georgia, Friday, Feb. 2, 2007.